Beryl Kingston

In Spring 1944 with invasion plans imminent, Steve and Barbara fall head over heels in love and get married. Can the marriage survive the strain of war?

On her way to an audition in London, Gemma Goodeve is involved in an horrendous train crash. She can only be freed from the wreckage after her lower leg is amputated. After the accident Gemma also has to contend with mother's ambitions and a media circus from which her surgeon tries to protect her . But is this what Gemma really wants?

Londoner Peggy Furnival meets the courageous and spirited Jim Boxall at school, and as the years pass her feelings for him intensify. But World War II brings chaos to their lives, as Jim joins the RAF and Peggy faces the dangers of the Blitz.

When Alison marries Rigby Toan she is blissfully happy, but then recession strikes and their home is repossessed. Alison realises belatedly that her husband is very different from the man she thought she had married.

The fortunes of an 18th century lady of humble origins and how she transforms the newspaper world;

Mysterious disappearance of twin sisters and their mother in 1926 leads a young solicitor to search for them in France;